With today's rapidly changing technology and an increasingly competitive society, modern university students need to have solid professional skills, as well as a high level of emotional intelligence. Lateral thinking and breakthrough thinking is considered as a prerequisite for cultivating high emotional intelligence. These three can be combined to make university students flexibly use their knowledge to carry out a large span of change, improvement and breakthrough. Universities increasingly attach importance to and strengthen the education of shaping EQ. It will help university students work, develop and cultivate themselves talented persons of harmonious socialist construction.